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National Labs Are One of the Gems of American Innovation
A lot of basic discovery and whether it's in drug discovery, you know, life sciences or in batteries and chemistry. The vast majority of those things never turn into anything that's commercial. Jennifer Dowdna at Lawrence Berkeley and UC Berkeley thought she could figure out a way how to change the genes consciously in a gene sequence; no biotech company would have funded her back then. She ended up with an amazing discovery and a Nobel Prize in the whole industry. And so, now I'm going to say an opinion. You know, the best case for federal money is where the private sector isn't.